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Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 74 points 3 days ago (6 children)

for anyone this inspires to make the jump, i recommend Tidal and Bandcamp.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They is also Mirlo which plan to federate

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 9 points 2 days ago

Never even heard of Mirlo until now. Neat! Thank you for shining a light on it.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[–] bystander@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Throwing out Stingray for people who often just need background music. Radio like music channels.

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Looking at tidal, there doesn't appear to be a way to search for music? Am I losing it?

Edit: you have to login first. Honestly, bad first impression already.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Edit: you have to login first. Honestly, bad first impression already.

Spotify doesn't even let you into the app without logging in

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was on desktop not app, where Spotify will let you search its catalogue without login.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I set up a Funkwhale but tbh it is feature-poor

Which would you suggest as a selfhost alternative ?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Funkwhale needs in app donations to artist moving from a platform that pay little to a platform paying nothing makes no sense

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

If it were just a tip jar feature that would be one thing but it's kind of a lot of things.
It does what it says on the tin and I love having a shared library online for streaming with apps that support local cache download. ... but it is missing a lot that most people want

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Become a developer & contribute code

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I was literally one day away from jumping onto Tidal, but then they dropped Plex integration. 😕